I started smoking hookah at the age of 18 and, and cigarettes at 20. Almost overnight I went from being a non-smoker to smoking a pack and a half of nonfilters or menthols a day. I owned over 40 hookahs and would smoke a minimum of 2, but average of 5-6 hookah sessions a day. I quit cold turkey when I was 21, but after about a half of a year I found myself using snus while I was at work to get through long shifts. It started slow, but after a while I was ordering my snus online & going through a tin or two a day. I’ve also regularly smoked cigars, pipes, I did chew for a while, and I even inhaled snuff for a while. I’ve probably regularly used every tobacco product imaginable. The first time I tried a vaporizer, it was one of those cigarette-like types and it really didn’t do much for me. If anything it turned me away from the idea of vaping for a long time. It wasn’t something I even considered. Around a year later I was at a friend’s house and my curiosity was struck when someone else who was there had a more advanced mod-type vaporizer. He was blowing clouds that rivaled the size of the ones my hookah created, but I could barely smell them! I asked him what it was, and he told me that the whole setup he had could be purchased for around $50. And the taste, oh it was amazing. I didn’t even connect that this device was in any way related to the gas station cigarette-likes I had tried in the past. I was having health issues related to smoking (constant throat infections that were going to require surgery) but I didn’t have any will or desire to quit. Even knowing that smoking so much was killing me, I had no urge to quit and the thought never crossed my mind. I bought my first vaporizer as a curiosity and to have another thing to smoke. Oddly enough, I was taking a break from detailing my car, smoking the last menthol in my pack and standing by my mailbox when the USPS man delivered my first vaporizer and liquid. I haven’t smoked a single cigarette or used any tobacco product since. About a month into vaping, I went on a road trip and I had part of my vaporizer break while I was sharing a smoking hotel room with 3 chain smokers who smoke 2+ packs a day and the even had several cartons of my preferred pack in the car! I didn’t even consider asking for one. Now I am working my way down to 0 nicotine because I find that it tastes better. I go down 6mg every other time I place a juice order. Vaping has shown me that what I really enjoyed about smoking was the flavor and the clouds, not the nicotine. Switching to a vaporizer is the best thing I’ve ever done and that random person at my friend’s house probably saved my life in the long run because I was killing myself with tobacco and I would have never quit.